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“Tolerance” collapsing under the weight of contradicting expectations, says author
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Tolerance – understood in its classical liberal sense as a virtue essential to freedom – has been hijacked and bankrupted, argues British sociologist Frank Furedi. “Dragged into the politicisation of identity, tolerance has become a form of ‘polite etiquette. Where once it was about the tolerance of individuals and their opinions, it has now been ‘redeployed…
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